The types of artillery shells rely on a laser designator on the ground or another platform, such as a drone, to illuminate ...

The U.S .Air Force largely replaced it’s costly laser-guide munitions with more affordable GPS-guided JDAMs, but still has weapons like the laser-guided Small Diameter Bomb which comes in at ...

The United Kingdom has also been developing its own laser-based defense system. Last year, the U.K. successfully tested its own high-powered laser weapon, DragonFire, against aerial targets.

Laser Weapon System temporarily installed on destroyer USS Dewey in July 2012. The Navy has been testing lasers on its ship for nearly 15 years.

An F-35 B-model fighter jet dropped a laser-guided bomb over an air force base in California this week, successfully destroying a tank parked on the ground. The plane released the 500-pound weapon ...

The Nato Support and Procurement Agency has awarded a €120m ($133m) contract to RTX, a prime US missile system manufacturer, to deliver laser-guidance kits for greater precision of air-to-ground ...

The U.S. Air Force confirmed that F-16 fightes used Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System 70mm guided rockets in the air-to-air role in combat to shoot down Houthi drones. The U.S. Air Force has ...

RAF FAIRFORD, England—The shift by the U.S. Air Force away from expensive air-to-air missiles to laser-guided weapons to down relatively cheap drones in the Middle East was enabled by a quick ...